Trying to learn how to make a flight plan, but . . . .

Officially you can't plan a flight like that. A plan can only have one departure and one destination: as soon as you click another destination it will replace the previous one.

However, there is an easy work around that MIGHT work: it won't support automatic (!) ILS for any of the in between airports though and you also won't get automatic FAF's (the point 10 nm out of the runway you want to land on which is created automatically by the planner), but at least the plan will lead you to the desired airports. If it actually does work depends on little on the location of your airports.

It's really quite simple.

- Position your aircraft on the departure airport using Location.
- Go to Navigation, click on the departure airport and choose your departure runway.
- Click on the final destination airport and choose your landing runway (this CAN be the same airport, like in your case LSGG).

The basic plan is done now.

- Now click on the map close to the first airport you want to go to, in your case LSZS. Do NOT click ON the airport itself! You should see a flag icon appear on the map and on the right you should see that same flag icon plus coordinates and the option Add to route. Click on Add to route and your manual waypoint will be added to the route.
- Repeat this for the other airports (in your case LSZH and LSZB).

Done!

You can of course try to position your manual waypoints in logical positions, like in front of the runway you want to land on (zoom in as much as you can do get this done properly). This of course won't let you use the ILS in for instance the Airbus but you should be able to do it with the Baron in which you can set the ILS freq yourself.

Initial cruising altitudes can be set in the plane itself, not in the plan.

P.S. I don't own Switzerland so I couldn't test if your desired airports will cause any problems: the order of the waypoints might change depending on the distances, but well, just give it a shot. It DOES work in the default region anyway.

Quote from Jetjockey10

Thanks Jeroen,

Thanks for the suggestions. I haven't figured out how to get rid of the little white flags, though.

I did figure that part out before I posted the thread. In the choices to show on the Nav screen the first triangle (intersection) seems to be the most prominent and can be used to get the closest to where you want to stretch the route line. The VORs and NDBs can be used to fill in some of the spaces.

This sure is a limitation, as it.

Regards,

Ray

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Hm, I am not sure if I am following you...;) You say you are limited to adding intersections, VORs and ndb's to the plan...? My point is that you aren't. You can click anywhere on the map and add that exact point, even if it is in the middle of nowhere, to your plan... there is no limitation at all.

You do not have to pick the closest VOR or whatever: you can pick the EXACT point you want! And you can stretch the route line to any position you want too.

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I tested it all some more and a little problem is that the program itself automatically connects all the waypoints: you can't change the order manually so this limits the idea a bit. But well... it is an option.

Aaaah, legs, yes, I understand. And yes, the planner is very basic. Though very good and easy to use too btw. Specially compared with other sims planners (or lack of planner).